Oddville Staff

The Oddville Staff

Managing Editor
Patricia Hurst would like you to think she is a professional pudding wrestler. She would also like you to believe she makes movies with such actors as Harrison Ford, Russell Crowe, Robert Downey Jr. and Christopher Walken. But she doesn’t. She’s just a longtime writer and confirmed coffee/chocoholic. She also may or may not rob banks.
Senior Fiction Editor
Robert Callaci is a 55 year old sales professional who seeks to know what can be known. He has written over 300 poems for his own amusement and has been published in various e-zines . For the past three years has been busy writing an epic fantasy titled The Tangled Tapestry. He resides in New York with the two loves of his life, his wife and dog.

Fiction Editor/Senior Copy Editor
Dru M. is a staffwriter for Blackheart Magazine. His writing has appeared in Thieves Jargon, HeavyGlow, Underground Voices, Lost in the Dark, Nevermore, Ink Magazine, Bloodcookies, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, Starving Arts, Cafe Irreal, Bloodletters, Cherry Bleeds, Zygote in my Coffee, and others. He lives in Canada, where he’s pursuing a master’s degree in creative writing.

Assistant Copy Editor
S.D. McKeown is a 25 year old plumber who writes action/adventure and techno-thrillers. He is currently pursuing a degree in humanities in his spare time. Twice a self-published author, S.D. has written four novels to date, and hopes to one day become a fully published author. Residing in South Armagh, Ireland, he has spent the last two years writing Acts of Treason, the fifth novel in a series of six.

Copy Editors
Rachel Johnson is a 29 year-old English graduate, and lives in Brighton, England, with her partner of four years, Robert. She works as a croupier, spending her nights meeting interesting characters and her days writing about them. She is currently working on her first novel.

Rebecca Tester: Despite the often depraved fiction she writes, Rebecca is an excellent neighbor who delights in baking brownies and walking her Rottweiler, but not her Beagle (who jerks her arms from their sockets). She writes when her two-and-a-half young children, home, dogs, ever-so-demanding fish and fabulous husband allow.

Jr. Editors
Jim Stay is a computer geek, technical writer, and one-time board member of Healthcare Informatics magazine. Retired to rural North Carolina, Jim writes short stories, and works with a wildlife sanctuary.

Alison Baumgartner, 22, is an English teacher living in Japan. A self-published author at seven –using the then industry standard of notebook and construction paper stapled together—Alison has not, as of yet, been able to recreate her earlier success.

Jordan Bowling is an 18 year old Kentuckian who likes a good mystery, but will read just about anything. She is currently attending college, working towards a degree in business accounting.

Lindsay Dubler lives in Olympia, Washington and has completed one YA novel, in the midst of writing two others, and has written a collection of short stories. She is passionate about writing that “makes you think” and is especially interested in edgy subject matter. She writes science fiction, young adult, and speculative fiction.

Stephanie Kraner is a twenty-two year old who writes urban fantasy and magic realism because she likes to imagine there’s wonder hidden somewhere amid the streetlights and road signs. She likes to read anything with strong, likable characters and a sense of imagination.

Jim Ryals graduated from Columbia College (New York) in 1982 and from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) in 1987. He recently abandoned his twenty year day job as a lawyer to pursue fiction writing full time. A refugee from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s socialist utopia, he relocated to Mandeville, Louisiana in 2007.

Michael Rigby, 18, is one of those people who doesn't quite fit into the label of student. Although school takes up must of his time, he is currently completing his Private Pilot's license and trying to complete one of the many short stories he's thought up in the air. In his free time he likes to train for marathons and run road races. He hopes to one day be able to publish a collection of his science fiction stories and fly around a few other published authors for a living.

Ben Russell is an 18 year old South Australian who, after ignoring fiction writing for well over a year, is just about ready to take up the pen once more with brilliant results sure to follow. A stunningly attractive and modest young man, Ben enjoys reading almost anything with a little depth, and loves experimental writing.

Miles McCoy, 17, is a full-time student, part-time writer, part-time musician and hails from Pennsylvania.

Poetry Editor
Ilasir Maroa

Public Relations
Stephanie Kraner

Layout
NS

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